On the men’s color wardrobe spectrum, brown is all too often a maligned member of the family: sleek grey suits, sophisticated black coats ... and Canali have long made brown the signature ...

when we think about big coats, we think about topcoats. The men's best topcoats are those you can fit any number of layers underneath. They tend to be long, and should, for the sake of the season ...

And before all that, there was the unexpectedly elegant, mid-thigh-length brown coat George Washington wore ... The buttons were ripped out long ago. Pieces of cloth were cut off and given away ...